Nov 21 2010
Exactly a year ago – before I got on to the internet and got myself a Facebook account – I used to bemoan the inordinate amount of time my husband Phillip spent on the internet. I couldn’t understand how he could spend a few hours staring on the computer screen some evenings so much so that [...]
Oct 12 2010
A few days ago I read the news that one friend stabbed another over some comments on Facebook. It seemed that Facebook was to be blamed from the way the report was written. To me this is really unfair, sad and scary. Something must have gone terribly wrong. I’ve also heard of someone’s Facebook account being [...]
Mar 18 2010
On 11 January, Terence and Ying Qi, whom I was staying with treated me to my first movie in ‘VILLAGE’ (one of the two cinemas in Hobart). The movie was none other than Avatar, the blockbuster sci-fi movie by James Cameron and was the 3D version. I was keen to watch this movie as my [...]
Oct 27 2009
In a matter of months, I will be 50 (half a century), or should I call myself a semi-centenarian. One of my children thinks that I’m going through some kind of midlife crisis when suddenly out of the blue I started to be a little high-tech. Until about a month ago I was lousy in [...]